Finally I have decided to share my little and very simple "creature". After some months of (very modest) programming and debugging, now I am ready to give AVStoDVD to Doom9 community. My hope is to help AVStoDVD to grow and, why not, help somebody with a very simple and easy-to-use tool.

What is AVStoDVD?

AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media formats to DVD compliant streams and burn them into a highly compatible single track (from release 1.0.0 to 1.2.3) or multi tracks (since release 2.0.0) DVD with menu creation capability (since release 2.1.0) and multi audio track support (since release 2.3.0).

Because I find very difficult to remember all the scripts and cmd line switches needed by AviSynth, QuEnc, HCenc, MuxMan, etc.
AVStoDVD is basically a friendly GUI with very few buttons to click to quickly produce a DVD from a single A/V file.

- Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista (runs with Windows 95/98/Me but 100% functionality is not guaranteed)
- Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or higher
- AviSynth 2.5.7 or higher - included in the installer
- DirectShow codecs/filters needed to play media files to convert (I suggest FFDShow)
Since AVStoDVD is programmed in VB6, it does not need .NET Framework to run, and all needed DLLs and OCXs are provided with the installer package.

Please, write your impressions, suggestions and bug reports here on Doom9 forum. I really need them! Since I am not a professional software writer, please do not hit me too hard and be patient if I do not reply in real-time.

I tried out your new program, it installs and runs well on my Xp system. A couple of comments though, the avi I tried it on (DivX, 25fps 104min long) was going to take 3hr 40min to do the encoding phase, set to High Quality 1pass CBR. The same file only 21 min to do the encoding part using DVD2SVCD with CCE 2.70. Any chance of supporting CCE as an option ?

The final encode also had the DIVX Symbol in bottom right of the picture for the few seconds, I dont get that with any other avi to dvd converter I've tried. I know I can turn it off in the DivX Configuration, but I prefer it to be there for playback of the avi.

The audio was originally MP3 22khz and converted fine but volume level was very low. DVD2SVCD choked on this audio track completely and had to convert manually.

I tried out your new program, it installs and runs well on my Xp system. A couple of comments though, the avi I tried it on (DivX, 25fps 104min long) was going to take 3hr 40min to do the encoding phase, set to High Quality 1pass CBR. The same file only 21 min to do the encoding part using DVD2SVCD with CCE 2.70. Any chance of supporting CCE as an option ?

Good suggestion, I have never thought about CCE/HC support but can be an improvement. However more than 3hrs for a 104min DivX is really too much. With my old P4 Northwood 2.4GHz QuEnc usually encodes at 20/25 fps. Can you post or mail me the log file, if you saved it?

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Originally Posted by ChickenMan

The final encode also had the DIVX Symbol in bottom right of the picture for the few seconds, I dont get that with any other avi to dvd converter I've tried. I know I can turn it off in the DivX Configuration, but I prefer it to be there for playback of the avi.

That's because AVStoDVD uses DirectShowSource() as default file input, instead of using AviSource() in the AVS script. Reason is higher compatibility.

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Originally Posted by ChickenMan

The audio was originally MP3 22khz and converted fine but volume level was very low. DVD2SVCD choked on this audio track completely and had to convert manually.

If you use a audio DirectShow codec like ffdshow, you can modify the volume by the decoder configuration utility.
Alternatively you can edit the AVS script and insert the AmplifydB() function to the audio stream.

Thanks a lot for testing AVStoDVD beta! Your job is very very appreciated!

Absolutely no other apps running at the time. I just checked with another avi, an NTSC 23.976 also about 100min long and with AC3 audio (so no audio conversion was happening), it also was to take 3hr+ to encode and getting around 13-14fps. I checked my CPU usage at the time and QuEnc was running at 50% (one CPU at 90% and second at 10%) as expected since its not Dual core aware.

The above avi was NTSC 23.976 but because hidden in the settings, it was set to PAL, it was encoded to PAL which is not what I wanted. Wouldnt it be simpler to encode to the format of the original avi but allowing it to be changed if required ?

QuEnc's speed problem is very strange: a friend of mine with same CPU as yours, reports to encode at 32/35 fps with same CPU usage.... Try using ffdshow with default options instead of DivX/XviD as DirectShow codec, if you will.

The option to automatically switch (or ask the user) to source video format (PAL/NTSC) is another good "ToDo" point.

What do you think about the GUI? Is it user-friendly enough? Any suggestions how to improve it?

I prefer not to install ffdshow as always in the past it has always screwed up my system. Using CCE I currently get 100 to 125 fps with D2S so reluctant to screw that up in any way, but may try later on a standalone install of XP.

GUI looks good for me, but personally I don't take much heed in looks, its functionality I'm more concerned with.

One more little request, can we have a bit-rate of 224 included for AC3. For 2 channel AC3, the most commonly used bitrate you will find on commercial dvd's is 192 & 224.

another vote for CCE support from me too if possible (preferably with the RoBa method for encoding)
i'm currently looking to see if i can find something to replace DVD2SVCD, since it refuses to work with 4GB of mem installed

Hi MrC, congratulations for your new project and hopes that you get all the success with him...

Now, this could sound like i'm a total newbie but the fact is i've tryied to run it on my Windows Vista Ultimate and the instalation went well, the problem is that i just don't know how to add the input files(avi,divx or xvid files) because i only see the path to add audio files...
The interface application program is very easy and i have a bit of experience in programs like this but the fact is that with this one it seems so far a bit complicated ,ehehehehehehe....
So if you could give some help on this i apreciate in order to give you my impressions about your "monster", lol...